Tour Overview

"The AAFF touring show is a superbly curated collection that allows Filmforum to provide its audience with the latest and best, well documented and supported with publicity materials." -- Adam Hyman, Programmer, Los Angeles Filmforum

Beginning in July 2010 and continuing through February 2011, the Ann Arbor Film Festival 48th AAFF Tour will visit galleries, art house theaters, universities, media arts centers and cinematheques throughout the world. Our tour offers several distinct programs of recent independent and experimental short films from the 48th Ann Arbor Film Festival across all genres: experimental, documentary, animation, narrative and hybrids.

The AAFF is a pioneer of the traveling tour concept, having launched tour shows in Paris, Los Angeles & Berkeley in 1964. Since that time, the tour has presented hundreds of influential works, including films by Barbara Hammer, Gus Van Sant, Sally Cruikshank, Don Hertzfeldt, Bill Brown, Ross McLaren, Paul Winkler, James Duesing, Martha Colburn and Jay Rosenblatt.

The tour provides filmmakers the unique opportunity of having their work screened in front of audiences for whom, in some places, the tour venue is their only access to this form of film art. Each filmmaker participating in the AAFF Tour is also paid for each tour stop, thereby helping to directly support their filmmaking.

"The AAFF has been at the forefront of experimental and avant-garde programming for decades and Brooklyn audiences appreciated the opportunity to see the latest work from both leading and emerging independent filmmakers." -- Florence Almozini, Director of Programming, BAMcinématek, NYC

Tour Program

The AAFF Tour program is divided into two high-quality digital programs and one 16mm program. Click here to see the complete listing of programs.

Tour Schedule

The tour visits cities across the country, check the schedule to find out when and where it will be in a city near you! Click here to see the schedule.

Booking

You can book the tour in separate program or together. To discuss tour programming at your venue, or if you have questions, please email Maria Feldman at maria [at] aafilmfest.org.

Promotion

To assist with promotion of your AAFF Tour program, we provide high-quality still images, a customized PDF for printing posters/flyers, a customized PDF program summary, festival graphics and copy. In addition, the AAFF promotes each tour stop on its website and monthly eNewsletter (12,000 active subscribers), and will conduct basic press outreach to each tour stops host city to help ensure media coverage.

To book the tour at your venue or if you have questions, please email Maria Feldman at maria [at] aafilmfest.org.

"The AAFF Tour fills our theater whenever its in town. It's not just an opportunity to see both primitive and cutting-edge cinema, its a chance to see the WORLD- as it is, imagined and re-created by filmmakers." -- Angel Vasquez, Assistant Professor, Bowling Green State University